Posted on 05/22/2023 9:33:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Opposition to new Environmental Protection Agency tailpipe regulations is growing after the federal agency projected the regulation would put more than half of American drivers out of gas cars and into electric vehicles.
As The Center Square previously reported, the EPA has projected that the proposed changes would mean that fully electric vehicles make up two thirds of all new "light duty" and 46% of new medium-duty vehicle sales by 2032. That would include most regular consumer vehicles, even SUVs and many pickup trucks. Currently, electric vehicles make up less than 5% of the market.
A group of 151 House Republicans rallied together to oppose the newly proposed rule, sending a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan Monday calling the rules "unworkable and impractical."
"The proposals are the latest effort by the Biden administration to commandeer Americaโs transportation sector and force its complete vehicle electrification under the guise of mitigating climate change," the letter said.
The EPA vehicles included in the 2032 projection are "passenger cars and light trucks: minivans, passenger vans, pickup trucks, and sport-utility vehicles."
The EPA defines heavy duty vehicles as "heavy trucks and buses: large pick-ups, delivery trucks, recreational vehicles (RVs), and semi trucks."
Critics have blasted the proposed changes, saying it is part of a larger Biden administration effort to undermine American energy production.
"We have never advanced as a nation or as an economy when government dictates consumer choices," Daniel Turner, executive director of Power the Future, told The Center Square. "Yet the Biden administration is using the power of government to determine what we drive and what appliances we have in our homes."
The EPA argues the rules would improve air quality by avoiding "nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions." The proposed rule changes still face a lengthy public comment and approval process as well as...
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We’ll see. The idea is to allow only the elites the ability to travel at their leisure, while the rest of us have to deal with trains and buses like it’s 1940. There aren’t enough rare earth minerals on this planet to commit to all-electric fleets for the West, let alone the rest of the world AND renewables. It just won’t happen.
Which I suppose is why they’re trying to blow up the economy so people can’t afford to eat; massive famine and death.
Assuming cars are still going to be allowed to be sold in the quantities they are currently being sold, there isn’t enough copper being mined in the world to meet this requirement, much less the rare earth metals needed to make the batteries.
Are the sane and rational waking from their slumber?
Violates the mandate that the US be a republic...it completely cuts out the roll of Congress....which also violates A1 S1.
“Weโll see. The idea is to allow only the elites the ability to travel at their leisure, while the rest of us have to deal with trains and buses like itโs 1940.”
Exactly.
Only the beautiful people will have convenient transportation. It’s tiny apartments and buses for the rest of us.
And, big bonus for them. They will have uncrowded freeways driving to their jobs as they force us off the roads.
“Assuming cars are still going to be allowed to be sold in the quantities they are currently being sold, there isnโt enough copper being mined in the world to meet this requirement, much less the rare earth metals needed to make the batteries.”
That just drives up the price of copper etc (and therefore the only legal cars) so that only our ruling class can afford to own a car.
EV’s are not the way, not at all.
EV’s are good for siphoning off public funds.
They’re good for virtue signaling, conversation starters and super neat toys to show your friends.
Raise your hand if you really believe that we are transitioning to electric vehicles. ๐
hope you like riding the bus
cuz thats what most will be doing
I’d like to hear each candidate running for the Republican nomination explain in detail what they will do to permanently stop the EPA in this insanity. The EPA is part of the Executive Branch - it does not have any Constitutional power to unilaterally impose electric vehicles on Americans.
Not even that. Without diesel you cannot farm efficiently enough to feed more than maybe 10% of our current population.
So the actual plan is that you die.
Which is what the evil people who invented the whole CO2 scam wanted to accomplish in the first place. "Climate change" is just a means to that end.
Meanwhile the elites make themselves even richer.
Most electric car owners charge their electric cars at night. However the power infrastructure depends on less electricity usage at night so the electric grid lasts longer. The EPA will be forced to change its plans.
EPA can’t even transition itself to electric vehicles. FOIA the GSA fleet lease records related to EPA and I suspect you’ll find far more 4x4 SUVs and diesel pickups than hybrids and pure EVs.
I propose that we take the stress off the grid by powering charging stations with local windmills and solar cells only at each station. Letโs see how fast the idea of pushing electric cars onto the public changes when the stations get their power locally by NOT being connected to the grid in any manner.
transitioning into electric is transitioning into control over us
“hope you like riding the bus
cuz thats what most will be doing”
It will be like riding the NYC subway in every community in America. Thugary will be off the chart.
“๐๐ต’๐ด ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.” -๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ธ
In reality the EPA can’t make law or rules, on Congress can.
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